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Saving the World

Julia Alvarez

2007384 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2007
first published
  • 2011Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9781616201029
  • 2007A Shannon Ravenel Book · 400 pages · ENGISBN 9781565125582

Suffering from writer's block, Alma finds herself enamored of a story involving Isabel, director of La Casa de Expósitos, who selected twenty-two orphan boys to be live carriers of the smallpox vaccine in 1803.

How it reads

Character focusTwo hander

Worth knowing

Romance levelCentral

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ThemesLove
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